June 26: The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Eighty tons of provisions are delivered that first day. The ...

Derived from the Douglas DC-3, the C-47 Skytrain would be the backbone of the Allies' air transport network in WWII [...] ...

When the time came, the Allied fleet, which now numbered nearly 400 aircraft ... 276,926th and final flight of the airlift touched down in Berlin. At last, the work was done.

A lack of basic goods like fuel and medicines. At the height of the Berlin Airlift, a plane landed at Berlin’s Templehof Airport every minute. Keeping West Berlin supplied in this way cost the ...

Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze — Series 1, The Berlin Blockade In 1948 Stalin blockaded Berlin. Bridget Kendall hears from three people who were there. BBC Radio 4 ...